Most of our cancer centers and hospitals are shit shows. Let’s be honest here. They are usually complete clusters. Our lives during and post treatment are also shit shows, so fasten your seatbelt and welcome to the shit show. Here are a few tips & tricks from an OG cancer patient that knows the ropes, so get your pen out and take notes! Triage Nurse Line. One of the most important things that I can emphasize is to have the…

I’m back and as transparent as ever with one of the most non transparent subjects ever…dating after cancer. As you all know, I’m a huge advocate of dating during treatment and a firm believer that everyone comes into your life for a reason, for a season, and serves an indefinite purpose. (Did I seriously just write that? Hashtag vomit) We all hold on to that image of a fairy tale in hope that it’s actually possible, that happy ending. When you’re dating someone during treatment, they see you at your…

Hi! It’s Jess and Cristie, and we are your (ex) Lymphoma wig connoisseurs. We both went through treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and spent our days messaging each other photos of our wigs, Pinterest wig inspo, and of course..our hair growth. Since sharing is caring, we figured we would share the wig hack wealth, so here are our tips! Not to toot our own horns, but we did have some bomb wigs, so let’s do this. Make sure you get a…

Alright ladies & gents. It’s the post that we’ve all been waiting for. Let’s talk post chemo hair growth. So, I lost my hair during my battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma not once, but twice. The first time I lost it was two weeks after my first chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It grew back beautiful and straight af, but then I lost it again when I started up more chemo after Radiation, cause you know, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is like the best…

It was all a dream, a social media dream. When I went public with my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma story, it was early 2016. I don’t think I even knew how to fully use Instagram. Essentially I’ve seen it all. The good, the bad, the ugly. I think social media is great because it helped me get through one of the most difficult periods of my life and connected me with some of the best friends I’ve met. They all had cancer…

Hi. I’m Jess. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been following my journey for awhile. Everyone always asks me “my story”, because in a healthcare system that is designed to have doctors double book as many patients as possible, often leading to misdiagnoses and even death, I was one of the lucky patients. I was one of the very few that came out alive from the 4th floor ICU at my cancer center. Everyone knows that most people on the…

One of the most hot topics during and post treatment is establishing boundaries. It’s also one of the most difficult topics, because it often takes quite a bit of time post treatment to actually establish them. Let’s be real, it took me a few years. But nonetheless, it’s a huge topic, and on any cancer board, you’ll see so many posts asking what to do when person x did this or did that to person z. I was one of…

As I sit here and write this, it’s May of 2018. Yes, 2018. There are so many tools to diagnose illnesses in this day and age. Whether it be a blood test, an MRI, a CT scan, there are tools. We have tools. If we have so many tools, why are over 12 million Americans misdiagnosed each year? There’s an awareness month for many diseases, and it’s time to raise awareness that misdiagnosing patients is also a deadly disease. Maybe…

It’s been almost two years since I breezed through 6 cycles of Esc. BEACOPP. I like to think that the less cancerous cells that we have in our body, the easier that the chemo becomes, but I’m probably totally making this up! I want to share with you guys a few basic tricks that helped me more so during the end of chemo, since I mastered all of the tips and tricks at the end, of course! Shocker. Before you…

Survivor’s guilt is something that I never really understood. Cancer survivors talk about it all of the time. But, it never really hit me. Not until it actually happened to me. When you have cancer, you find that there is a large network of other cancer patients and survivors out there. You connect with them, almost instantly. There’s an unwritten, automatic bond, because you get it. You get eachother. In one way or another, you’re going through or have gone…